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| Introduction | |
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| A Rocky Road to War | |
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| Amazing Encounter at Pier 86 | |
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| A British "Mystery Plane" Vanishes | |
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| A One-Man Espionage Apparatus | |
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| Recruiting Crossword Puzzle Geniuses | |
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| New York's IRA Hoodwinks Spymaster | |
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| Stalking a Soviet Defector | |
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| Two Spies Roam British Ports | |
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| Stealing Secrets by Mail | |
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| "Simple Simon" Trips Himself Up | |
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| A Taxi Ignores Theory | |
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| The IRA Bilks the Abwehr | |
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| Clash of Two Top Nazis | |
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| Hitler's Pipeline into Washington | |
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| A Senator Helps a German Spy | |
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| A Peculiar River Crossing | |
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| Dame Fate Saves General Rommel | |
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| Going in Style to a POW Camp | |
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| Clanging Bells Rock Germany | |
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| Did Prime Minister's Mistress Influence Surrender? | |
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| Venus de Milo Fools Germans | |
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| The Allies' Hours of Crises | |
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| Mission: "Nazify" a Conquered Nation | |
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| Curfew for Dutch Dogs and Ducks | |
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| Wild Schemes for Saving England | |
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| Curious Duel in British Skies | |
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| A German Pilot's Unlikely Captor | |
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| The Royal Navy's Invisible Ship | |
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| Hitler's Plot to Murder Franco | |
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| A Cleaning Woman Foils Hitler | |
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| The Battle of the Birds | |
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| Roosevelt in a Shouting Match | |
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| Democracy in a Battlefield Hospital | |
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| Strange Means for Urgent Warning | |
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| A Dedicated Blood-Bank Volunteer | |
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| The Spymaster's Peculiar Scheme | |
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| A Pursuit of Bugs and Lice | |
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| A Cantankerous Torpedo | |
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| Curious Death of a German Bigwig | |
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| Ernest Hemingway Stalks U-Boats | |
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| Fluke Saves a British Fleet | |
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| The War's Craziest Wedding Scenario | |
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| Two WACs on a Secret Mission | |
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| Strange Place for Royal Jewels | |
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| The Tide Starts to Turn | |
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| Navajo Code-Talkers Ignite Panic | |
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| Adolf Hitler Plays Santa Claus | |
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| Purple Heart Stripped from Sailor | |
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| Saga of Top-Secret Maps | |
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| Eisenhower Aide Helps Trick Germans | |
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| The General's Pants Go AWOL | |
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| Mystery of the Vanishing Report | |
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| Hostile Horsemen Chase Airplane | |
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| A Dead Sergeant Walks Away | |
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| A Tank Commander's Close Call | |
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| Espionage in the Vatican | |
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| OSS Agent's Hidden Bribes | |
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| An Unlikely Spy Scores Coup | |
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| Eisenhower Disclosure Stuns Reporters | |
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| A Horrendous Bombing Error Pays Off | |
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| Freak Encounter in No-Man's-Land | |
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| A Mule-Borne Commander | |
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| The Captain Refused to Be Killed | |
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| Two GIs Beat Patton to Goal | |
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| "Prescriptions" for the Lady Spy | |
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| Huge Bonus for a Jungle Spy | |
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| "The Madame" Was a Secret Agent | |
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| A Movie Fan on Bougainville | |
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| A GI Carries His Eyeball | |
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| Beginning of the End | |
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| An Odd Place for Spying | |
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| Hitler's "Creatures" at Anzio | |
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| American Spymaster Shocks London | |
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| Exciting Races on a Beachhead | |
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| A Social Visit to the Enemy | |
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| The Spy Who Spent the War in Bed | |
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| Secret Agent Saved by a Blacksmith | |
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| A Bomb Explodes Too Late | |
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| An Ingenious Escape Artist | |
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| A Prophetic German Cook | |
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| Gods Smile on Teddy Roosevelt Jr | |
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| "Don't Worry . . . I'll Shoot You First!" | |
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| An Enemy Saves "Father Sam" | |
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| Firefighters Center of Attention | |
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| The "Mess Sergeant" Was a Lady | |
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| Massacre in the Wrong Village | |
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| A General Turned Fire Chief | |
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| The Great Soap Bubble Scheme | |
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| A Triumph for Two OSS Men | |
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| Four Newsmen Bag a German Platoon | |
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| German Shoot-Out among Themselves | |
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| Ordeal for Missing Identical Twins | |
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| Parachute Pack Saves Trooper | |
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| Drone Boats Go Berserk | |
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| "Am I Having Hallucinations?" | |
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| A Doctor Captures a German Hospital | |
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| A Colonel's Unique "Uniform" | |
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| Allied Road to Victory | |
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| Banzai Charge in a POW Camp | |
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| A Nazi Zealot Obeys His F�hrer | |
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| Miracle Saves Woman Spy's Life | |
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| The War's Unexplained Mystery | |
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| Dutch Boys Capture Nine Germans | |
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| Luck Runs Out for the Blue Goose | |
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| "Baby Patrol" in No-Man's-Land | |
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| Providence Saves a Polish Spy | |
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| The Choirboys Plot to Doom Hitler | |
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| "Kidnapping" a Thirty-Ton Tank | |
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| A Hero "Resigns" from the Navy | |
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| A Jeep Bonanza for "Scarface Otto" | |
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| A Peculiar Reception Committee | |
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| Hitler Humbles His Generals | |
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| History Repeats for German Colonel | |
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| A Jinxed Town in Belgium | |
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| A Belgian Woman Halts the Panzers | |
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| Hex by a Lieutenant's Pal | |
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| A Fluke Halts Eisenhower Trip | |
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| A GI "Division" of Thieves | |
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| The Miracle of Wiltz | |
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| Unique Distinction for a Survivor | |
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| Digging Up a Revered German Hero | |
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| An Unlikely Battlefield Hero | |
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| Part Six-A Shaky World Peace | |
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| Amazing Scenario in Manila | |
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| Death Stalks a Navy Pilot | |
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| Shoot-Out at a Boxcar | |
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| MacArthur Recaptures His Home | |
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| Offering Up a Bonfire of Money | |
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| A Tommy-Gunning Pilot | |
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| Gods Smile on German General | |
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| A Tail Gunner's Miraculous Survival | |
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| Curious Incident in a Command Post | |
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| Hoax to Seize a Rhine Bridge | |
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| Churchill "Consecrates" the Siegfried Line | |
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| An Airman Dodges Certain Death | |
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| Pilot's Prayer Gets Results | |
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| Glider Used as a Weapon | |
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| His Masseur Coerces Himmler | |
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| A Surrender-by-Telephone Tactic | |
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| Kidnapping Polish Underground Leaders | |
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| El Darbo's Charmed Life | |
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| Air Dogfight with Pistols | |
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| Comic Opera in the Bavarian Alps | |
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| Collaring a Nazi Bigwig | |
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| Peculiar "Capture" of an SS Colonel | |
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| Stalin's Son in Strange Mission | |
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| A Scheme to Blow Up Japan | |
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| Odd Interlude on a Train | |
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| A Soldier's Thirty-Year War | |
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| Notes and Sources | |
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| Index | |